Windshield and protecting divider assembly

Abstract

A windshield divider and support assembly for supporting two or more motor vehicles windshields spaced apart in a container, as disclosed. The divider support assembly consists of two pairs of support spacer members which are formed of cardboard material, and each member comprised of a reinforced hollow honeycomb paperboard membrane and opposed paperboard sheets. A plurality of spaced apart slots extend from an elongated edge of each of the spacer members and define shock absorbing ribs which are capable of flexing sideways in a lateral plane and twisting in torsion to receive straight or angled portions of motor vehicle windshields thereacross to support a plurality of windshields in a container and spaced from opposed side walls, bottom wall and top wall thereof. The entire support assembly is of light weight, low cost, very flexible and repulpable.

I claim: 
     
       1. A windshield divider and support assembly for supporting two or more motor vehicle windshields spaced apart, said assembly comprising two pairs of spacer members, each pair of spacer members having an elongated rectangular bottom serrated board and a top elongated rectangular serrated board, said serrated boards having a plurality of spaced apart slots extending from an elongated edge thereof, a shock absorbing flexible spacer rib defined between adjacent ones of said slots, said boards having a structure formed by a reinforcing sheet of hollow honeycomb material defining adjacent horizontal through bores, opposed outer flat walls secured to opposed faces of said reinforcing sheet and transverse to said through bores, said outer flat wall of said bottom support serrated board being thicker than said outer flat wall of said top, said board structure permitting said ribs to flex independently of one another to provide ease of access to said slots to introduce an edge section of a windshield therein, said slots of said bottom and top serrated boards being in alignment with one another when said bottom and top serrated boards are positioned in planar edge alignment with end walls of said boards aligned and one or more windshields extending transversely therebetween, each of said spacer members being spaced apart with said one or more windshields clamped thereacross so as to support same spaced and protected from walls of a container when placed therein. 
     
     
       2. A windshield divider and support assembly as claimed in claim 1 wherein said slots are angled slots extending at an angle across said opposed outer flat walls. 
     
     
       3. A windshield divider and support support assembly as claimed in claim 3 wherein said angled slots extend at 5 degrees to said opposed outer flat walls. 
     
     
       4. A motor vehicle windshield divider and support assembly as claimed in claim 1 wherein said reinforced sheet of hollow membrane material and outer flat sheets are formed of recyclable material. 
     
     
       5. A motor vehicle windshield divider and support assembly as claimed in claim 1 wherein said outer solid flat sheets are comprised of solid pasted recycle paperboard sheets. 
     
     
       6. A motor vehicle windshield divider and support assembly as claimed in claim 1 wherein said outer flat sheets are formed of corrugated cardboard having flutes extending transverse to said through bores of said honeycomb material. 
     
     
       7. A motor vehicle windshield divider and support assembly as claimed in claim 1 wherein said ribs are elongated rectangular ribs, said ribs being capable of flexing laterally in the plane of said board toward adjacent ribs and being capable of twisting in torsion to accommodate curved windshield sections in said slots. 
     
     
       8. A motor vehicle windshield divider and support assembly as claimed in claim 7 wherein said serrated boards define a wide vertical end ribs at opposed ends thereof with said plurality of slots extending therebetween, and an elongated support and protection rib adjacent an elongated edge portion opposed to said edge having said slots. 
     
     
       9. A motor vehicle windshield divider and support assembly as claimed in claim 6 wherein there are at least two layers of said corrugated cardboard on opposed sides of said honeycomb material.